Profiles

Good Morning, Bias: Diane Sawyer’s Liberal Spin

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MRC Staff

Even before ABC News tapped Diane Sawyer to take over as anchor of World News, she was a familiar face to millions of morning TV viewers as co-host of ABC's Good Morning America, part of a lengthy career she has enjoyed at the network.

A Smattering of Harry Smith’s Liberal Smugness

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MRC Staff

For the past seven years, Harry Smith has co-hosted CBS's The Early Show, currently the third-place broadcast network morning news program. Smith previously co-hosted CBS's This Morning from 1987 to 1996 while also serving as a contributor to the CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, and various documentaries. In 1996, Smith left CBS to narrate various programs for the History Channel and A&E's Biography.

Tea Parties Hit with Hostile & Crude Media Response

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MRC Staff

Media coverage of the more than 800 Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party protests, which took place in all fifty states on April 15, 2009 ranged from disdainful dismissal of their nature, significance and import, to outright hostility towards the events and individual participants, to crude sexual innuendo-based ridicule - all capped off by MSNBC bringing aboard actress Janeane Garofalo to scurrilously charge the rallies were only "about hating a black man in the White House." Here's a summary of the most-obnoxious and hostile coverage, illustrated with several videos, on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and

Rosie O'Donnell's Left-Wing Ravings

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MRC Staff

As co-host of ABC's The View during the 2006-07 television season, Rosie O'Donnell used her daytime perch to push an array of extreme left-wing and anti-American views. Soon after her debut in September 2006, O'Donnell used the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to insist that "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam." In a similar vein, she advised her audience: "Don't fear the terrorists.

George Stephanopoulos: ABC's In-House Spin Doctor

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Table of Contents

Brian Williams

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2006
Economic Progress or Dirty Trick?
NBC Features Leftist on Katrina/Race: Bush Clueless Patrician
Brian Williams Equates Elite U.S. Military With Terrorist Bombers

ABC’s Charles Gibson, Conventional Liberal

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MRC Staff

Charles Gibson, ABC's longtime co-host of Good Morning America was tapped to replace Elizabeth Vargas as solo anchor of World News Tonight, starting May 29, 2006. On his morning show, and as a frequent fill-in for Peter Jennings on World News Tonight, Gibson over the years has shown little willingness to stray from the media elite's liberal template.

CBS’s Mike Wallace: Too Many Minutes of Liberal Bias

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MRC Staff

To mark his retirement, the May 21, 2006 edition of 60 Minutes devoted a tribute to Mike Wallace. Below, from the MRC's archive, are some comments and views from Wallace that were not mentioned on the tribute show:

Wallace proclaimed that if he were traveling with enemy soldiers he would not warn U.S. soldiers of an impending ambush
Wallace was "astonished" wounded vets back the Iraq war.

Top Ten Left Wing Scenes on The West Wing

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MRC Staff

On Sunday night, May 14 2006, NBC aired the final episode of The West Wing. Since its debut in September of 1999 when "President Josiah Bartlet," played by Martin Sheen, told some cartoon-ish conservative religious leaders to "get your fat asses out of my White House," as ratings fell over the years the prime time drama regularly advocated liberal policies and showcased liberal causes. From oldest to newest, this Web compilation provides text and video/audio for a "Top Ten" presentation of some of the program's most notorious liberal moments and crusades.

Meredith Vieira: Megaphone for the Liberal Cause

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MRC Staff

On April 6, NBC announced that Meredith Vieira, a host of ABC's The View, in September will succeed Katie Couric as co-host of the Today show. In picking Vieira, NBC chose a journalist with a record of liberal views on many contentious issues. Below is a collection of MRC reports on her issued after her selection.

Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon

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MRC Staff

Walter Cronkite passed away, at age 92, on July 17, 2009.

This compilation, gathered in 2006, showed how, since his retirement in 1981 after twenty years as anchor of the CBS Evening News, Cronkite had made clear his liberal views on a range of issues, including how being a liberal is essential to being a good journalist. Below is a representative collection of Cronkite's liberal pronouncements, and denunciations of conservatives, since the late 1980s.

Dan Rather's Outrageous Liberal Bias

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MRC Staff

Dan Rather's Liberal Media Bias

World News Tonight With Peter Jennings: 20 Years of Liberal Bias

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MRC Staff

On September 5, 1983, Peter Jennings took the helm of ABCs World News Tonight as its sole anchor. While based in ABCs London bureau from 1978 to 1983, Jennings had shared anchor duties with Chicago-based Max Robinson and the Washington, D.C.-based Frank Reynolds, who was the newscasts main anchorman until his death in July of 1983.

Peter Jennings: A Review of the ABC Anchor's Iraq Coverage

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Howell Raines: Editor and Partisan

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New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines has aggressively promoted liberal policies throughout his career. Listed below are what others have said about the head man at the Times and a couple of comments from Raines himself.

Clinton was a Favorite of both Raines and the Times